European Commission Plans Emissions Trading for Aviation Industry

By WJ on March 22, 2007

By Janina Scheelhaase, Wolfgang Grimme and Martin Schaefer

In December 2006, the European Commission published a proposal for a directive on the inclusion of aviation into the European Union’s emission trading scheme for stationary sources. The German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Air Transport and Airport Research Unit, analyses the impacts of the proposal on operating costs, ticket prices and the demand for air transport. The article gives an insight into the ongoing research.


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Willem-Jan is Editor of Aerlines Magazine since 2002. WJ has bachelor degree in Business Logistics from the Haarlem Business School and holds a Master degree in Economics from the Free University Amsterdam where he graduated early 2006 with a thesis on competition in the air cargo industry.

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